About us. The Foundation For Hair Restoration

Dr. Epstein, speaking at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery’s 2015 annual meeting on his novel technique called “The Hybrid Approach”, combining the best of both FUE and strip.

There are few surgeons with as much experience, expertise, and training as Dr. Epstein performing hair restoration. Since 1993, he has been providing world class hair restoration to those individuals seeking out a true artistic surgeon able to combine the finest in technology and aesthetics to create natural appearing results. Patients- men and women, of all ethnicities- from all 50 United States and over 80 countries seeking to enhance their image and restore their confidence and youthful appearance have trusted their care to Dr. Epstein. As a double board certified facial plastic and hair restoration surgeon, Dr. Epstein is uniquely qualified to apply his aesthetic background and skills to male and female patients seeking the most natural hair restorations. In 2012, Dr. Epstein took on his first associate, Anthony Bared, MD, like him a fellowship trained facial plastic surgeon similarly committed to his patients’ best results. Click here to read more about Dr. Bared.

MISSION STATEMENT
The Foundation for Hair Restoration is committed to providing the very finest in hair restoration in an ethical, professional, and safe environment.

Dr. Epstein routinely teaches his techniques to other doctors from around the world. Here Dr. Epstein is pictured with two of his colleagues one from Florida and another from California at a teaching session he conducted with ten visiting doctors.

While a personal consultation with Dr. Epstein in his Miami and New York City office is not always possible, many of our patients have their consultation via the Internet. Your entire procedure can be planned without meeting Dr. Epstein in person until the day of or day before your procedure – rather, by sending photographs along with information about yourself including your goals. You will be assigned a patient advisor who will guide you through the entire process and arrange for Dr. Epstein or Dr. Bared – the choice is yours – to evaluate your photos and/or to have a Skype® webcam consultation. In either case, your entire procedure can be planned through a combination of personal emails, webcams, and/or phone calls with the doctor and your patient advisor. Your visit to our web site is a great learning experience – providing you with the opportunity to learn about the work being done for individuals like yourself, by the Foundation for Hair Restoration, and to see just how good you can look.

Earning our Unsurpassed Reputation Through Consistent Hair Growth and Exceptional Naturalness, One Patient at a Time

An overwhelming majority of our patients achieve outstanding, industry leading regrowth percentages of transplanted hairs. With that said, in the area of medicine results are not fully predictable- this is true in hair transplantation as well. By adhering to the very highest standards, our typical FUG and FUE patients experience a hair growth rate of 95% ON AVERAGE, results that match or exceed the leaders in this profession and have donor site scars that heal as fine lines measuring 1-2 mm in width or narrower in 90% of cases, and in the case of FUE, tiny dot scars that are undetectable in over 70% of patients even with the head shaved. To help assure the very best results, Dr. Epstein has a team of 15 full-time hair assistants, who average working with Dr. Epstein for over 10 years! These assistants are professionals, committed to perfection, and caring and kind. In our annual patient satisfaction surveys, patients rate their hair transplant experience to be a positive or extremely positive overall experience 97% of the time. In addition and this is perhaps where we stand out, Dr. Epstein’s reputation is for creating undetectable, natural appearing hairlines.

The front office and administrative staff include Cindy, Carmen, and the famous Roxy

The FHR hair assistants each have specialized roles. Some are graft dissectors, working under the microscope to cut every graft. Several are “sliver-ers”, carefully dividing the donor strip into thin slivers one follicular unit wide, to assure the lowest percentage of hair transection. Some of the most experienced assistants meaning 8 or more years with Dr. Epstein are planters, intimately familiar with how Dr. Epstein distributes the one, two, and three hair grafts to achieve the most natural appearance. There are also specialized assistants at the FHR who assist him in extracting FUE grafts, as well as performing eyebrow and beard transplants, delicate procedures in which Dr. Epstein specializes, all assuring patients the best results.

Here Dr. Epstein is pictured hosting several surgeons from Europe.

There is the rare patient who has a lower than expected rate of growth due to no fault of the doctor or patient. There is even a scientific term for this event called the “X” factor which offers theories but no solid explanation for its occurrence. We are 100% committed to your complete satisfaction as a patient, which helps to explain our positive feedback, continued growth, and an impressive list of patient referrals with which you may speak.